KludgeHack

Working with Dev-Cpp on Windows Vista

Recently I needed Dev-Cpp (free C++ IDE for Windows and Linux) to compile some old code, unfortunately, current versions (4/5 beta) don’t support Windows Vista.

Doing some online searches I found out at a SourceForge post mentioning a workaround:

• Open the menu “Tools > Compiler Options“, select the “Directories” tab and add “C:\Dev-Cpp\libexec\gcc\mingw32\3.4.2″ to the list.
• On the same window, choose the ”Programs” tab, and add ”C:\Dev-Cpp\bin\” before every executable name. (You can also edit Windows Environment variables, but this is definitely a safer way)

Naturally, put no quotation marks and eventually replace C:\Dev-Cpp\ with your Dev-Cpp installation folder.

After this, everything should work fine.